Industry Related Events

November 14-16, 2018
Application Deadline: October 14, 2018

Summary

Common biases. Irrational investment behaviors. Decision-trap situations.
In today’s ever-changing and complex financial markets, senior executives responsible for managing client assets need to understand the factors that produce sub-optimal outcomes for investors.
Led by a faculty of intellectual thought leaders and foremost practitioners, Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance presents a revolutionary new science for investment decision making: behavioral finance. In two intensive days, you'll learn the central principles surrounding the psychology of decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty, with a focus on practical applications for those responsible for managing assets and constructing portfolios for investment clients.

The Science Behind Investment Decision Making

Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance will enable you to:

Understand the applied science of effective decision making.

Discover how our brains are not wired to deal with the decisions that modern financial markets require and ways to adjust for these shortcomings.

Learn how and why financial bubbles develop and strategies for recognizing them.

Identify the psychological reasons that lead investors to make severe investment errors.

RI Americas 2018

Summary:

2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the RI Americas conference. The annual two-day conference provides a unique opportunity to learn, share and debate on responsible investment issues with 500+ investment professionals from across the globe. Engage with North America’s largest investors on key themes affecting local markets and the rest of the world. Thought-leaders from across the institutional investment sector as well as academic researchers will come together to debate key issues.

The conference is produced by Responsible Investor, the only dedicated news and events service covering responsible investment, ESG and sustainable finance for institutional investors globally.

Day 2

On day two, we will discuss unsupervised learning techniques and discuss the role of Big Data and Deep Learning techniques for large-scale machine learning. We will also discuss best practices in scaling and using anomaly detection techniques.

Instructor

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP is the founder of QuantUniversity.com, a data and Quantitative Analysis Company and the creator of the Analytics Certificate program and Fintech Certificate program. Sri has more than 15 years of experience in analytics, quantitative analysis, statistical modeling and designing large-scale applications. Prior to starting QuantUniversity, Sri has worked at Citigroup, Endeca, MathWorks and with more than 25 customers in the financial services and energy industries. He has trained more than 1000 students in quantitative methods, analytics and big data in the industry and at Babson College, Northeastern University and Hult International Business School. Sri is leading development efforts in creating a platform called QuSandbox for adopting open source and analytics solutions within regulated industries.